Debra Hughes, MS

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Despite initial recognition of opioid-induced androgen deficiency (OPIAD) as a possible consequence of opioid use more than four decades ago, few studies have systematically investigated hormonal changes induced by long-term opioid administration.

No resistance to tenofovir alafenamide (TAF) was detected through week 48 in adults with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV), regardless of whether they were treatment-naïve or -experienced, results of two phase 3 studies presented at The Liver Meeting® 2016 have shown.

Use of telbivudine and tenofovir in middle-to-late pregnancy was equally effective in reducing mother-to-infant chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection vertical transmission, a real world study in China reported at The Liver Meeting® 2016